Moyers:
Do you ever have this sense of when you are following your bliss, as I have at
moments, of being helped by hidden hands?
Campbell:
All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me
as the result of invisible hands coming all the time- namely, that if you do
follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all
the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one
you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the
field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss
and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going
to be. Campbell:
In India there is a beautiful greeting, in which the palms are placed together,
and you bow to the other person. Do you know what that
means? Moyers:
No Campbell:
The position of the palms together - this we use when we pray, do we
not? That is a greeting which says that the god that is in you
recognizes the god in the other. These people are aware of the divine
presence in all things. When you enter an Indian home as a guest, you are
greeted as a visiting deity. Moyers:
Who interprets the divinity inherent in nature for us today? Who are our
shamans? Who interprets unseen things for us? What about those
others who are ordinary, those who are not poets or artist, or who have not had
a transcendent ecstasy? How do we know of these things?
Campbell:
I’ll tell you a way, a very nice way. Sit in a room and read-and read and
read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought
onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the
time

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